FDNY EMT Driver Hits and Kills Pedestrian in Bronx Crosswalk
An ambulance driver turned left off East Gun Hill Road and hit a 56-year-old man in the intersection. Overnight in the Bronx, a man walking was killed on the spot so the vehicle could keep rolling without a scratch.
What We Know
An FDNY EMT driving a 2015 Ford ambulance was making a left turn from DeKalb Avenue onto East Gun Hill Road in the Bronx when she hit a 56-year-old man at the intersection. The city crash record lists the fatal crash at 1:22 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2022; the Daily News, citing police and surveillance video, reported it happened about 1:15 a.m. in a crosswalk in Norwood. The Daily News reported that video showed the man had a steady walk signal, and FDNY sources said the ambulance did not have lights and siren on and the EMT was not responding to an emergency. Medics took the man to North Central Bronx Hospital, where he died. The driver remained at the scene and had not been charged, the Daily News reported that day.
A left turn at the intersection ended in a fatal crash
The city crash record says the crash happened at East Gun Hill Road and Dekalb Avenue in the Bronx at 1:22 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2022, and that one pedestrian was killed. The person killed was a 56-year-old man at the intersection.
The Daily News reported that an FDNY EMT driving an ambulance was making a left turn from DeKalb Avenue onto East Gun Hill Road when she hit the pedestrian in a crosswalk. The article placed the crash at about 1:15 a.m., while the city record lists 1:22 a.m.
Video showed the pedestrian had the walk signal
The Daily News reported that surveillance video showed the 56-year-old man had a steady walk signal when he entered the crosswalk. FDNY sources told the paper the ambulance did not have lights and siren on, and that the EMT was not on the way to an emergency.
The city vehicle record describes the ambulance as a 2015 Ford traveling north before the crash and making a left turn. It lists the point of impact as the left front bumper.
East Gun Hill Road has remained a high-injury Bronx corridor
The crash happened at East Gun Hill Road and Dekalb Avenue in Norwood, near North Central Bronx Hospital. The Daily News reported that the EMT had just pulled out of the hospital before the crash and that medics took the pedestrian there after he was hit.
CrashCountNYC location data for East Gun Hill Road in the Bronx shows 1,041 crashes, 708 injuries, 42 serious injuries and 3 deaths since 2022.
The driver stayed at the scene
The Daily News reported that the ambulance driver remained at the scene and had not been charged as of Jan. 2, 2022.